The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
More Quotes from Jerome Hines:
When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the basses you hear today.Jerome Hines
Don't be led astray by the oversimplified notion that proper use of the breathing apparatus will magically provide a panacea for all your vocal problems. To say that vocal technique is nothing more than breath control is as foolish as saying that a steam locomotive is nothing more than a boiler.
Jerome Hines
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.
Jerome Hines
It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
Jerome Hines
No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'
Jerome Hines
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